Friday, July 19, 2013

Do You Have A Question For Our Doctor ???

OUR DOCTOR IS READY TO MEET YOU THROUGH TELE-CONFERENCING

Drug and Alcohol counseling

For patients involve in
drug and alcohol counseling, tele-psychiatry sessions enable critical
monitoring and therapy during and after the treatment. Private and continuous
care from home can have a significant impact on compliance and rehabilitation
success.

What
Is
Tele - psychiatry?

The majority of doctor visits are just
that: visits. Patients schedule appointments and go to a physical
location, like the doctor’s office, to discuss their symptoms with and be
examined by their physicians. Computers and the internet, however, have
changed that need.

Telemedicine is the broader term to
describe the use of technology to facilitate communication between patients and
their health care providers. Telemedicine includes services such as monitoring
a diabetic patient’s glucose levels or a cardiac patient’s heart rhythms
remotely, with specialty medical devices.

Tele-psychiatry
in particular involves the use of video-conferencing software such as Skype, or
Google Talk Video to enable an interaction between the patient and
psychiatrist.

Who
Can See a Psychiatrist This Way?

The most
common scenario for tele-psychiatry is a patient living in a remote location
where access to psychiatric services is limited. Tele-psychiatry can be
used to manage medications, provide psychotherapy, and follow up with patients
as part of the normal course of treatment.

The
Advantages of Tele-psychiatry?

Perhaps the
biggest benefit of tele-psychiatry is the opportunity to provide quality and
timely health care to a much larger population than was previously possible.
All that’s needed is a computer with internet access. It enables doctors
to treat patients all over the world without any travel or office expenses.
Patients also receive more options for treatment; instead of being limited to
their local physician, or having to drive hours to a medical center in a major
city, patients can select from any of the physicians who practice
telepsychiatry.